Marko Pogačnik[needs IPA] (born August 11, 1944) is a Slovenian artist and author.
Background
Pogačnik studied at the
holistic vision of art. He claims to have developed a method of earth healing similar to acupuncture by using pillars and positioning them on so called 'lithopuncture' points of the landscape.[1]
In 1998, together with his daughter Ana, he founded the Lifenet movement, which has been described by scholars as a "typical New Age" group.[2]
He lives and works in the village of Šempas in the lower Vipava Valley. In the last decade, the town of Nova Gorica, in which municipal territory he resides, has commissioned a number of public monuments from Pogačnik, most notably the monument to the 1000 years of the first mention of Gorica and Solkan, which stands in the town's central public square.
Prešeren Fund Award for his work.[1] In 2008, he received the Jakopič Award, the central Slovenian fine arts award.[1] He was nominated two times for the Right Livelihood Award.[1]
Publications
Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings - Working with the Intelligence in Nature (Findhorn Press, Scotland, 1996).